Chapter 357
Mudan said, the weak expression on her face disappeared. She got out of bed, put on her shoes, and saluted Xia Zihan, "I wonder what the county master's orders are when he comes to see this slave?"
"Just curious."
I wonder what kind of woman she is, who can easily enchant Song Baiqing. She doesn't care about anything and even dares to kill his wife.
Today, she finally saw the real person.
"It's really stunning." She praised with a smile.
But Mudan smiled bitterly, as if she still hated her own beauty, "It's just a shell."
No matter how beautiful she is, she is just a toy for men to toy with.
In this life, she will be ruined by this face.
If it weren't for this face, how could she have been arranged to enter Xinghua Tower by her master?
How could he become the plaything of the Song family and his son?
If she had been more ordinary, maybe she would have been trained by her master to be a maid like other women.
No matter which mansion they were arranged to go to, it would be better than serving two beasts like the Song family father and son.
Xia Zihan didn't understand the pain in Mudan's heart. She smiled and said, "But there are countless women in the world who want such a body. If you have it, you should cherish it."
Cherish it, cherish it.
She wished she could ruin this face.
If it weren't for the fear that her master would be unhappy if she ruined her face, he would ruin her.
Huh, she was disfigured eight hundred years ago.
Mudan curled her lips and said, "Here comes the county lord. Are you here just to talk to your slaves?"
"Yes, it's just one." Xia Zihan's face suddenly turned cold. "Second, I want to ask you, did you abort the child in your belly on purpose?"
A trace of fear seemed to flash through Mudan's eyes.
Soon, she calmed down, "No, it was just an accident."
Xia Zihan didn't miss the look in her eyes. Seeing that she didn't tell the truth, she wasn't angry at all. She just said lightly, "You don't have to worry that I will file a complaint."
"Actually, even if Song Baiqing survives what happened this time, he will never get out of prison in this life."
"There is no point in keeping the child in your belly."
Song Baiqing has already tested the bottom and is finished. If he wants to keep such a chess piece, who else can he threaten?
Threaten Song Huai?
Yep, as long as Song Huai doesn't admit that he had anything to do with Mudan before, what's the use of threatening him.
She said, "Song Huai is a smart man and a capable person. I think you should find an opportunity while he is busy with Pei's funeral to move out of the Song family and save your life first."< br>
What happened this time was a wake-up call for Song Huai. In the future, he would probably never maintain his previous relationship with Mudan.
He would even do extreme things to cover up previous scandals.
He is such a white-eyed wolf and must be guarded against.
Song Boqing is in prison. Regardless of whether he dies or not, the Song family has been defeated.
The Song family was doomed and had completely reached the point where they had no way out and were at the end of their rope, but Song Huai still had a way to go. As long as he took the path of scientific research, he would still have a chance to make a comeback.
However, if he spreads any bad scandals again, then he will really be defeated in his life, and he will not even be qualified to make a comeback.
Therefore, peonies are dangerous.
"This slave knows." Mudan slightly twisted her beautiful sleeves and eyebrows, her face a little heavy, "But the master did not give orders, and this slave did not dare to leave the Song family."
"Who is your master?" Could it be that it's not Aqi?
"We can't tell the county boss about this." Mudan looked embarrassed.
Xia Zihan didn't force her to say it. He just said, "I can't disappear for too long, otherwise it will arouse people's suspicion. I have to leave. You need to take good care of yourself first. When you take good care of yourself, you can leave the Song family as soon as possible." .”
"Thank you, County Master, for reminding me." Xia Zihan said after Peony blessed her body, "Go and lie down on the bed quickly. I'm leaving."
Then, the person flew out of the window.
Peony walked over, closed the window, and then lay back on the bed with a gloomy look.
Yes, she deliberately wanted to abort the child in her belly.
At that time, when Pei's crutch came down, she could have avoided it with all her strength by reaching out her hand, but she only avoided the vital point of her head and forced herself to bear Pei's crutch.
Because she didn't want to give birth to this child.
To her, Song Baiqing and Song Huai were just a few enemies that her master ordered her to deal with.
She would not be so foolish as to give birth to the child of her enemy.
Will she tell her child that she killed his father when he grows up?
No, she couldn't give birth to a bomb that might kill her and avenge his father.
She did this matter quietly at the time, and even Song Baiqing and his son did not suspect her. Unexpectedly, County Master Chu Yu would actually guess it.
Such a smart girl, no wonder Prince Chu would have a deep affection for her.
Mudan pulled up the quilt and covered her head, thinking about how to leave the Song family.
Before she could think of a way, a few days later, she seized an opportunity.
The evidence of Song Baiqing's beating to death of Mr. Pei was conclusive. After the government officials heard the case, they found that because Song Baiqing was a distinguished member of a well-known family and was a marquis, according to the laws of the Dasheng Dynasty, the government officials could not deal with him privately, but had to file a memorial and report it to the court. , let the emperor decide. Three days later, the emperor's decree came down.
Song Baiqing was deprived of his marquis title and demoted to a commoner. He was also sentenced to three thousand miles of exile and was never allowed to leave the place of exile.
The imperial court wanted to take back the sacrificial fields and house given to the Song family.
However, the emperor allowed the Song family to hand over the house after holding the funeral for the Pei family in order to consider the ancestors of the Song family having contributed to the court.
As for Song Boqing, on the day the imperial edict was issued, he was escorted by officials and set off to the place of exile.
Three months later, news came that Song Baiqing had become unaccustomed to the climate on the way and contracted a serious illness. He died before he reached the destination.
Mr. Pei had just been buried in the ground when the bad news about Song Boqing came. Song Huai, who was devastated, hurriedly took several young men with him to transport Song Boqing's body back.
No, not bringing the body back.
The emperor has decreed that Song Baiqing will not be able to enter the capital again for the rest of his life.
Song Huai did not dare to transport Song Boqing's body back to the capital, so he had to find a place outside and bury it hastily.
By the time Song Huai returned to the capital, it was already the New Year's Eve.
The Song family's sacrificial field and house have been taken away by the court. Shi Wenting moved into the Shi Mansion where the Shi family originally stayed. Mudan took this opportunity to leave the Song family and her whereabouts are unknown.
Everything in the Song family is gone.
In addition to offering sacrifices to the fields, the Song family's property originally included two Zhuangzi and some valuable utensils, calligraphy and paintings, etc. However, during the funeral of Pei, Shi Wenting took the opportunity to sell them and pawn them for money. Then Shi Wenting put it into her purse.
As for the several heirlooms of the Song family, they were all pawned by Shi Wenting, and the money was used by Song Huai to bury Song Boqing and spent all the money on the way back and forth.
When Song Huai returned to the capital, he only had a few taels of silver left in his possessions.
Except for Shi Wenting, Song Huai now has nothing and is penniless.
Even the pen and ink shop he opened jointly with Song Boqing, after Song Boqing's death, the shopkeeper Na Ma disappeared inexplicably, and the shop closed down.
Desperate and helpless, Song Huai had no choice but to live in Shifu. From then on, he ignored what was going on outside the window and only immersed himself in reading.
After experiencing the death of his parents and the defeat of his family, his will has not been wiped out, and he has even made up his mind to study hard and become the top scholar.
He wants to make a comeback and regain the glory of the Song family.
……
What will happen to Song Huai is a matter for the future, but at present, Zeng is in a dilemma.
The Song family is holding a funeral, and Pei's coffin has to be worshiped for seven or forty-nine days in the Song family before it can be buried. But right now, Qi Lan and Qi Mei's wedding is coming soon, and the two sisters want to She wants to marry out of the Chu family.
This is very embarrassing for Mr. Zeng.
After all, the Song family and the Chu family are also related. The Song family is having a funeral. At this time, if the Chu family is holding a happy event, it would be too eye-catching.
If it was Xia Zihan's marriage, it would be okay. After all, the wedding date had been planned for a long time, and the girl's wedding couldn't be delayed just because a relative was having a funeral.
But the status of sisters Qi Lan and Qi Mei in the Chu family is just two little maids. If she makes a big deal, wouldn't she be spit on in this situation?
But if she doesn't do something big, Qi Mei's husband's family is a martial arts family and the family power is not low, then she will be like a slap in the face of the Dongfang family.
Hey...
Zeng was in a dilemma.
I was so embarrassed that I didn't eat well for two consecutive meals.
Xia Zihan felt distressed, "Grandma, you only ate half a bowl of soup in the evening, and you didn't eat a mouthful of rice. Is it because the food cooked by the cook is not to your liking? Otherwise, I'll invite the chef from Juxianglou tomorrow." Would you like the chef to come home and cook something for you?”
This time, she was specifically concerned about the Song family's affairs, even ignoring her grandmother's physical condition.
It really deserves a beating.
Xia Zihan mentally slapped himself hard.
Then he said, "It's better for my granddaughter to make a bowl of big bone noodle soup for grandma to eat. It happened that there was big bone soup stewed in the kitchen at night."
With that said, she told Hongmei and the other maids to take good care of Mrs. Zeng while she went to cook noodles.
Mrs. Zeng took her hand and said, "No need to go, grandma is not hungry."
"Yu Niang, Qi Mei and Qi Lan's wedding is coming soon. Look, the Song family is having a funeral. Will it be a surprise to have a wedding in our house?"
"How about asking the Qi family to change their schedule to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
By the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the funeral of the Song family should have been completed.
But Xia Zihan didn't want to change his life.
She pursed her lips and said, "Grandma, you haven't had an appetite these past two days. Are you worried about this?"
"Anyway, the Song family is also your aunt's home."
After all, Zeng still felt sorry for Song Huai.
After all, it is the only bloodline left by the little Zeng family.
My mother has just passed away, and my father has been exiled again. He will never be able to return to Beijing for the rest of his life, which means nothing.
Xia Zihan sighed in her heart, secretly angry that her grandmother was too soft-hearted and could not let go of the Song family.
But she couldn't tell her grandmother that in her previous life, Song Huai was the person who harmed her all her life.
(End of chapter)